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Jazz & Improvisation
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Abrams, Joshua: Represencing [VINYL]
(Eremite)
Composer and musician Joshua Abrams brings together a variety of artists and instruments to create an album of different styles and traditions centered around the North African ceremonial instrument the guimbri.
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Baars, Ab / Ken Vandermark / Paal Nilssen-Love: AB: Abet?! [7-inch VINYL]
(Terp Records)
A 7" record with one side featuring the trio of Ab Baars, Ken Vandermark, and Paal Nilssen-Love playing live in Kazanchis; the flip side is a solo saxophone performance by Mats Gustafsson.
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Edwards / Parker / Prevost: All Told Meetings with Remarkable Saxophonists -- Volume 1
(Matchless)
Eddie Prevost set up a series of 2011 concerts at Network Theatre, Waterloo, London to return to the drum kit in a meeting with remarkable saxophonist Evan Parker, with London in-demand bassist John Edwards.
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Butcher / Viltard / Prevost: All But Meetings with Remarkable Saxophonists -- Volume 2
(Matchless)
The second volume of Eddie Prevost's 2011 series of concerts at Network Theatre, Waterloo, London meeting with remarkable saxophonists, here with John Butcher on tenor & soprano, with Guillaume Viltard on double bass.
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Deep Listening Band: Needle Drop Jungle [VINYL 2 LPs]
(TAIGA)
Together with bandmates Stuart Dempster and David Gamper, Oliveros' Deep Listending band churned up a vigorous storm at their January 2011 residency in Seattle, captured on this double vinyl release.
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Dunmall, Paul / Tony Bianco: Thank You to John Coltrane
(Slam)
Paul Dunmall creates a tribute to John Coltrane by taking a few of his themes and playing them with just saxophones and drums (Bianco), therefore accenting the power of Coltrane's original compositions.
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Guy, Barry / Eddie Prevost / Evan Parker / Keith Rowe: SUPERSESSION
(Matchless)
Recorded at a concert in London, September 1984, this supersession brings AMM stalwarts Keith Rowe and Eddie Prevost together with saxophonist Evan Parker and bassist Barry Guy for an amazingly diverse and cohesive long improvisation.
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Hinds, Killick Erik / Stagner, Bob / Palmer, Dennis: A.S.A.P. Wings
(Shaking Ray Records)
Shaking Rays Levis avant improv/rock/indescribable music expands to a trio with the addition of guitarist Killick Erik Hinds and presents seven tracks with a Residents cover!
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Killick: Bull****
(Solponticello Records)
Killick Hinds plays a custom-made 38 string harp guitar in twelve diverse solo tracks inspired by the pacifist writer Munro Leaf with resonant tones that are at times exciting and others hypnotic.
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Killick: Exsanguinette
(Solponticello Records)
Guitarist Killick Hinds comes together with saxophonist Larry Ochs, trumpeter Liz Allbee and drummer Brann Dailor for seven original tracks and seven remixes of intense avant-garde music.
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Kowalsky, Gregg with Jozef Van Wissem: Movements in Marble and Stone [VINYL]
(Amish Records)
Two new pieces from composer Kowalsky recorded live in 2011: "Electronic Music for Square and Sine Waves" for the Activating the Medium festival in San Francisco; and "For Baroque Lute, Tapes and Resonant Space" with Jozef Van Wissem.
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Lexer / Prevost / Wright: Impossibility in its Purest Form
(Matchless)
Leveraging the concept of the geometrically impossible Penrose Triangle, the trio of Sebastian Lexer (piano), Eddie Prevost (percussion) and Seymour Wright (sax) perform three permutations of duos and one full trio.
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Lexer / Schiller: Luftwurzein
(Matchless)
Part of the Alike As Trees Festival 2011, pianist plus Sebastian Lexer met Christoph Schiller on spinet at The Rag Factory in London to record these intense and unexpected improvisations from two key instruments by two key London players.
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Mezei Septet, Szilard: 100 Tu Hossza
(Slam)
A lively collection of extensive compositions by Szilard Mezei with Central European direction and a lot of improvised playing from the members of his energetic and sophisticated septet.
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Oliveros, Pauline: Primordial/Lift [VINYL 2 LPs]
(TAIGA)
This double LP contains the previously unreleased 2nd performance of "Primordial / Lift" from September 2010 with Anne Bourne, Andrew Deutsh, Miguel Frasconi, David Grubbs, Jason Huang, and Suzanne Thorpe.
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Parker, Evan / Georg Grawe: Dortmund Variations
(Nuscope)
The duo of two free improvising masters, saxophonist Evan Parker and pianist Georg Graewe, recording the three part "Dortmund Variation" live from the Domicil in Dortmund, Germany in 2009.
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Pastor, Stefano: Songs
(Slam)
Solo album by Italian violinist Stefano Pastor with influences of jazz, avant-garde, European modern, Brazlian pop, and blues using no other musical tools besides an acoustic violin and his voice.
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Phillips, Barre - SPECIAL OFFER: Triptych #5: Traces - Barre Phillips - Fifty years of measured memories
(Kadima)
A magnificent book/DVD/CD package from European Free Jazz bassist Barre Phillips: A DVD of Phillips playing solo and talking about his music; a CD of his recording Journal Violone, 1968; and a book of photos, posters and album covers.
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Risser / Duboc / Perraud: En Corps
(Dark Tree Records)
Frequent collaborators bassist Benjamin Duboc and drummer Edward Perraud, known from The Fish, Nuts, Abdelhai Bennani Trio, &c, join with prepared and unprepared pianist Eve Risser for two extended, intense and excursive improvisations.
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Sanders, Pharoah : In The Beginning 1963-1964
(ESP)
This 4-CD set documents the first recordings of iconic tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders prior to his well-known association with John Coltrane, in unreleased sessions with Don Cherry, Paul Bley, Sun Ra, plus interviews, &c.
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Shkurtaj Trio, Admir: Gestures and Zoom
(Slam)
A trio headed by Admir Shkurtaj (accordion, piano) with Giorgio Distante (trumpet) and Redi Hasa (cello) with pieces guided by musical mechanisms that offer both a framework and improvisational freedom.
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Watts, Marzette & Company: Marzette Watts
(ESP)
Multi-reedist Marzette Watts was a 60s player working with the likes of Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, &c., here in a reissue of his debut release with Clifford Thornton, Sonny Sharrcok, Henry Grimes, Karl Berger, &c.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Ambarchi, Oren: Raga Ooty/Nilgiri Plateau [VINYL]
(Bo Weavil Recordings)
Three previously unreleased solo works by Oren Ambarchi featuring guitar harmonics over a tambura drone on one track, a 12-string acoustic guitar played by motors on another, ending with a remix of "Raga Ooty".
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Decimus / Hobo Sonn: Decimus/Hobo Sonn [VINYL]
(Kelippah)
On one side, Decimus uses synthetic devices to create nightmarish renditions of everyday noises, on the other, Hobo Sonn places field recordings over a dark soundscape.
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Dilloway, Aaron / Jason Lescalleet: Grapes and Snakes [VINYL]
(Pan)
The first collaborative work between underground experimental/noise artists Aaron Dilloway and Jason Lescalleet, using purely analog synths and tape manipulation to build a foggy psychoacoustic mass.
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English, Lawrence: For / Not for John Cage
(Line)
While creating a new film score for a restaged film originally by John Cage, Lawrence English formed this separate body of sound work that is influenced by some of Cage's passions and interests.
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Fennesz: Fa 2012 [VINYL 12"]
(Editions Mego)
New versions of Fennesz's 1997 track "Fa" from his debut solo album which explore alternate means of club-based music through unique beat structures and sampling.
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O'Rourke, Jim: Old News #8 [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Old News)
Old works from the depths of Jim O'Rourke's nearly quarter century archive of experimentation featuring works from 1991 and 1992 in a double LP.
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Reines D'Angleterre: Globe et Dynastie
(Bo Weavil Recordings)
A collaboration between avant outsider Ghedalia Tazartes and two electronic botanists, elg and Jo aka Opera Mort, in a slow trip into wizards intimacy, synthetic jungles, underseas zoos and tibetan-industrial complexes.
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Various Artists: District of Noise Vol. 5
(Sonic Circuits)
The fifth installment of the District of Noise series featuring a diverse set of experimental noise and electronic artists from the Washington DC area released as part of the 2012 Sonic Circuits Festival.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Alvarius B.: Alvarius B. [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Abduction)
Originally released in 1998 as a limited edition vinyl 2LP, the 2nd Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls) is a full-length release of deranged original folk songs, now reissued in an exact 2 LP repro edition.
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Kramer: The Brill Building
(Tzadik)
A tribute which has been seven years in the making by Kramer to the famous Brill Building in New York City and the Jewish composers who made it a heart of songwriting for decades.
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Residents, The: Duck Stab
(MVD Audio)
A re-issue of the classically weird, anti-pop album by the anonymous group The Residents with outrageous tracks that feature cartoonish tunes and voices mixed with oddly tuned instrumentation.
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Residents, The: Duck Stab [VINYL]
(MVD Audio)
LP edition of the CD listed above.
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Residents, The: Eskimo
(MVD Audio)
A chilly concept album by the anti-pop group The Residents aided by Chris Culter and Don Preston, attempting to recreate the ceremonial music of the Eskimo which, although divided into six tracks, should be played as a whole.
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Compositional
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Cage, John: Sonatas and Interludes [VINYL 3LP BOX]
(John Cage Trust)
Nurit Tilles records Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, which he wrote between 1946-48, released for Cage's Centennial Year in a deluxe numbered and limited 3-LP 200 gram 45 rpm box with a 40-page booklet of essays.
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Cage, John: Song Books [2 CDs]
(Sub Rosa)
Works for voice and electronics performed by Lore Lixenburg, Gregory Rose, and Robert Worby that include all of the solos from John Cage's original 1970's Song Books as well as super-mixes that combine and layer many solos.
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Feldman, Morton: Music for Piano and Strings Volume 2 [DVD-AUDIO]
(Matchless)
The 2nd volume of "Music for Piano and Strings" by Morton Feldman is performed by The Smith Quartet with John Tilbury, presenting "Patterns In a Chromatic Field", and "Piano, violin, Viola, Cello", on DVD audio to allow for the length of these large works.
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Kang, Eyvind: Grass
(Tzadik)
A collection of new compositions by Eyvind Kang that are quiet in nature and serve as works for solo piano, string quintet, and more with sonic soundscapes similar to Morton Feldman but with Kang's unique style.
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Zeitkratzer: Neue Volksmusik
(Zeitkratzer)
The Zeitkratzer ensemble takes on folk music (New Folk Music) in their latest project with a focus on the genre's ever-changing nature, while merging various geographical folk traditions in new and radical ways.
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Books & Magazines
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Wire, The: #344 October 2012 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(The Wire)
October issue of the UK music magazine with Flying Lotus on the cover and a wire tapper VA CD attached, plus articles with John Butcher, Henry Flynt, Laurie Spiegel, Ernst Karel, Clive Bell, Pelt, Aldo Tambellini, &c. &c.
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September Vinyl Discounts!
For the rest of September we are offering the following discount on our entire catalog of vinyl LPs, EPs, and 7" records:
Buy 5 or more LPs and take $2.00 off each! The minimum savings is $10 if you order 5 vinyl items in the same order,
and the savings increase with each additional vinyl item you order.
The resurgence of vinyl has been one of the great format returns in the history of recorded music,
so take advantage of this discount to expand your own vinyl collection!
Sale ends September 30, 2012. Orders must be placed using our online shopping cart. Discount applies to in stock items only. Discount applied at checkout time.
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The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.
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Recent Reviews
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Henry Threadgill Zooid:
Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Sppa
(Pi Recordings)
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Suborno:
The Instrument
(Runningonair Music)
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Lucio Capece:
Zero Plus Zero
(Potlatch)
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Neneh Cherry & The Thing:
The Cherry Thing
(Smalltown Supersound)
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Mike Osborne Trio:
The Birmingham Jazz Concert
(Ogun)
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Volker Heyn:
Sirenes
(Edition RZ)
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In Stock and Ready to Ship
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Acid Mothers Temple:
Son Of A Bitches Brew
(Important Records) |
Ahleuchatistas:
Heads Full Of Poison
(Cuneiform) |
Berthet, Christophe:
Malval
(Creative Sources) |
Bleak House:
Dark Poetry
(Creative Sources) |
Bretschneider, Frank:
Kippschwingungen
(Line) |
Brotzmann / Satoh / Moriyama:
Yatagarasu
(Not Two) |
Cherry, Neneh & The Thing:
The Cherry Thing [VINYL]
(Smalltown Supersound) |
Getatchew Mekuria, The Ex & Friends:
Y’Anbessaw Tezeta [2 CDs]
(Terp Records) |
Johnson, Max :
Quartet
(Not Two) |
Killick:
The Amplifucker
(Solponticello Records) |
Mazurek, Rob Pulsar Quartet:
Stellar Pulsations
(Delmark) |
Moore, R. Stevie:
Hearing Aid [VINYL 2 LPs]
(MEGAPHONE/KNOCK 'EM DEAD) |
Parker, William Orchestra:
Essence of Ellington/Live in Milano [2 CDS]
(Centering Records) |
PascAli:
Suspicious Activity
(Creative Sources) |
Perelman, Ivo / Matt Shipp / Gerald Cleaver:
The Foreign Legion
(Leo) |
Perelman, Ivo with Sirius Quartet:
The Passion According To G.H.
(Leo) |
Redfearn, Alec K. and The Eyesores:
Sister Death
(Cuneiform) |
Rivers / Holland / Altschul:
Reunion: Live in New York [2 CDs]
(Pi Recordings) |
Robinson, Jason:
Tiresian Symmetry
(Cuneiform) |
Second Approach Trio, The:
Beeswing
(Leo) |
Taylor, Cecil / Pauline Oliveros:
Solo - Duo - Poetry [DVD]
(Curtis R. Priem Exp Media And Performing Arts Center) |
Urabe, Masayoshi:
Kampanerura
(Utech Records) |
Vainio, Mika:
FE304 - Magnetite
(Touch) |
Willits + Sakamoto:
Ancient Future
(Ghostly International) |
Zepubicle:
Scientists Levitate Small Animals
(Solponticello Records) |
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